Small Group Questions

1. In what ways do you see culture trying to shape or redefine people’s identity today? Where do you feel that pressure personally?

2. Daniel and his friends accommodated where they could but stood firm when faithfulness to God was at stake. How can we discern the difference in our own lives?

3. Why do you think compromise usually happens gradually rather than through big, obvious decisions? Have you experienced this personally?

4. What habits or influences help strengthen your resolve to follow God when it would be easier to simply “go with the flow”?

5. What does it practically look like to live in culture without letting culture define you?

6. Daniel’s resolve was shaped long before his crisis in Babylon. What daily practices help prepare us to stand firm before pressure comes?

7. What is one area this week where you sense God inviting you to live more clearly out of your identity in Christ, and how can this group pray for you in that?

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